Civil Rights and Post 1972 Test Review

This Supreme Court case in 1954 overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and effectively ended racial segregation in public schools.

• Miranda v. Arizona

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• U.S. History Class v. Mr. Logan

President Richard Nixon's foreign policy began this, which was the "easing of tensions" with the Soviet Union.

• detente

• Warsaw Pact

• perestroika

• gifting a new pair of American cowboy boots to the Soviet government

This is a terrorist organization that believes in jihad or “holy wars” against the United States. 

• Al-Queso

• Al-Mighty

• Al-Qaeda

• these options are all ridiculous

This is a law that ended all racial segregation in public facilities such as restrooms, restaurants, buses, movie theaters and swimming pools. 

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• 14th Amendment

• Civil Liberties Act of 1981

• Restroom Freedom Act of 1492

The 2000 election between George W. Bush and Al Gore was extremely close with Presidential hopeful Gore demanding a recount of all votes in the state of

• Puerto Rico

• Florida

• Canada

• The Supreme Court of the United States

This person was a member of the Nation of Islam and a civil rights advocate who promoted “black nationalism.”

• Denzel Washington

• Booker T. Washington

• Malcolm X

• Frederick Douglass

This was a South African policy that strictly segregated both black and white South Africans from 1948-1994 

• Apartheid

• Apathy

• Apartment

• This is made up... there's no such place as South Africa

This is an Islamist Fundamentalist group that governs and still controls power in Afghanistan today, especially since the United States pulled their forces out of the country in 2021.

• Taliban

• MS-13

• Hezbollah

• The Lost Boys

This person was the President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and a Southern Baptist minister during the Civil Rights Movement, who believed in non-violent protests called "civil disobedience." 

• Malcolm X

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

• Hank Williams Jr.

This was a policy by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev which provided “openness” into the Soviet government.

 

• "glass is half empty"

• Glasgow

• glasnost

• letting foreign people into Russia with smartphones